How to find the OpenNTF Projects you're looking for

Posted by Niklas Heidloff on March 28, 2013

There are more than 800 projects on
OpenNTF which is more than on other popular open source sites which have
less but bigger projects. The big number of projects makes it sometimes
hard though to find the projects you are looking for.

That's why Christian Guedemann has improved
our projects
page which provides different ways to find projects. In addition to Google
searches via the search box in the upper right corner, there are three
other ways.

1) The combobox allows selecting a project
by name. The combobox now shows all projects again as supposed to the 'active'
ones. We received feedback that people were confused what 'active' means
and why certain projects didn't show up there.

3) When the owner combobox is used,
only projects of that person are displayed.

The results of (2) and (3) are displayed
below the textbox and combobox. By default they are ordered by the date
when the projects were last updated. The sort order can also be changed
to project name via (4).

With these new ways to find projects,
we could remove the old views with view paging functionality.